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The following is based on the topic outline found in the AP US History "Acorn Guide". Although it is not necessarily exactly what you need to know for the exam, it will provide you with an "idea" of what you are reading for (while taking "Fresh Notes," of course).

2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings
  • Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon's Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt

3. Colonial North America
  • Population growth and immigration
  • Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports
  • The eighteenth-centry back country
  • Growth of plantation economies and slave societies
  • The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening
  • Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America

Kennedy Chapters for this Segment

  • Chapter 4 - American Life in the Seventeenth Century (pages 66-83)
  • Chapter 5 - Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (pages 84-105)

Bailey Readings for this Segment

  • Indentured Servants in the Chesapeake Region (pages 65-74)
  • Bacon's Rebellion and Its Aftermath (pages 75-77)
  • Slavery in the Colonial Era (pages 78-79)
  • Life Among New England Puritans (pages 81-86)
  • The Colonial Melting Pot (pages 87-93)
  • The Great Awakening (pages 94-97)
  • The Colonial Economy (pages 98-103)
  • The Shoots of Democracy (pages 104-107)

The "New York" Quiz Questions for this section


Kennedy Exam Multiple Choice Questions for this section


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